If there is one certainty in the Elisa Pilarski case, it is that there is “none on the precise course of the events which led to the death” of this young woman of 29 years old, on the 16th November in Retz forest (Aisne), as conceded on Monday the parquet floor of Soissons in a press release.
While revelations have been linked in recent weeks, shedding light on many points in this case, the word of Frédéric Trinh, the prosecutor of Soissons, was all the more expected since it had been rare since the death of Elisa. This Saturday in November, while she was walking Curtis, her companion’s dog, the young six-month pregnant woman had succumbed to “dog bites”, said the same prosecutor at the end of November.
A plural which already made possible the involvement of the dogs of the Passion rally, a pack of hunting with hounds which was in the forest that day. The DNA sampling of 62 of these dogs, in addition to the five of the couple formed by Elisa Pilarski and Christophe Ellul, should allow us to see more clearly. Expected this month, their results will finally not be available before “the end of the first half of 2020”, according to the prosecutor’s office in Soissons.
“DNA expertise is not the absolute grail”
This week, France Info had indeed revealed that it was the cost of these analyzes – around 200,000 euros – that had led the courts to postpone them. The first quote from a laboratory should be favored that of a second, cheaper. It is therefore the latter who has probably just been chosen by the investigating judge, as mentioned by the prosecution. “In this particular case, DNA expertise does not constitute the absolute grail,” warned Me Caty Richard, lawyer for the mother and uncle of Elisa. There is no question of fantasizing that these expertises will answer all the questions posed by the drama. “
Until their conclusions are finally known, the prosecution has therefore clarified what lessons justice could draw from the autopsy of the body of Elisa, described as excruciatingly mutilated when her companion found it, around 3 p.m. on November 16 . The characteristics suggest “the action of one, or more probably of several dogs with regard to the distribution of wounds, their differences in morphology and their depths”, specifies this time the public prosecutor, who indicates that he it is impossible “to count the animals because of the many entangled bites in the same area. “
Time of death to be specified
Similarly, while according to a previous press release, the time of death was estimated at 1:30 pm, Frédéric Trinh indicates that this time is to be interpreted “with a confidence interval of 2 hours. A shade that is anything but harmless. Because in their defense, those responsible for the Passion Rally assured that at 1:30 p.m., their dogs had not yet been launched into the forest. If the death occurred between 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., their responsibility would not be immediately dismissed.
When he started looking for Elisa, who called him at 1:19 pm to tell her that she was “threatened by dogs”, Christophe Ellul explained that he had encountered the pack, whose master crew was placed under assisted witness status. “A hunting expert” has been appointed “for the purpose of shedding light on the progress” of this hunting hunt. Two veterinarians were also, this time to examine Curtis’ behavior, and carry out “an analysis of the bites found on the body of Elisa Pilarski to determine the breed of the dog or dogs involved. “
Curtis has bitten several times since then
When he was found, Curtis presented “several cutaneous excoriations on his muzzle and the muzzle. “Scratches,” in short, that could have been caused by other dogs. As he could have inflicted them himself by removing with his legs his muzzle, which had been found on the ground, according to what Christophe Ellul had explained to us in November.
As we had revealed, Curtis has bitten several times since he was placed in a pound in Beauvais (Oise). “Two people were seized by the clothes during the behavioral analysis, while another person was bitten in the pound where the dog is kept,” confirms the prosecution.
